Top 1200 Destined For Greatness Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.

The measure of a country's greatness should be based on how well it cares for its most vulnerable populations.

You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.

Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.

For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.

The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity

The greatness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.

A state of equality is perhaps less elevated, but it is more just; and its justice constitutes its greatness and beauty.

I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. As the successor to DOS, which has over 10,000,000 systems in use, it creates incredible opportunities for everyone involved with PCs.

If the communications media are a good destined for all humanity, then ever-new means must be found - including recourse to opportune legislative measures - to make possible a true participation in their management by all. The culture of co-responsibility must be nurtured.

I am a firm believer that you don't achieve greatness on your own. There is always someone there to lend a hand

I've been living with that all my life. My name is Michael Jordan, so I'm always being compared to a person of greatness.

The greatness of this country lies in how every single person can exercise their right to be himself or herself.

The most obvious criticism of aid is its links to rampant corruption. Aid flows destined to help the average African end up supporting bloated bureaucracies in the form of the poor-country governments and donor-funded non-governmental organizations.

We're in an era where the demand is for immediate hits that are destined to become obsolescent. Six months later, everyone forgets the artist and the tune. It's become like a con job. Producers, engineers, lawyers and accountants all make money, but the artists don't.

Presidential aspirants reach for the highest office to satisfy some yearning for greatness or even immortality.

In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity

My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.

I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of foresight. I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album 'New York Groove'.

The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.

With eyes of faith consider the greatness of your mission and the wonderful amount of good which you can accomplish.

Pastries . . . can only be appreciated to the full extent of their subtlety when they are not eaten to assuage our hunger, when the orgy of their sugary sweetness is not destined to full some primary need but to coat our palate with all the benevolence of the world.

SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.

It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.

There's very little greatness in this world, but in the crucible of quality there's a special corner reserved for Van Halen.

An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.

Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.

As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease.

The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.

I want, I think, to be omniscient. I think I would like to call myself "the girl who wanted to be God." Yet if I were not in this body where would I be-perhaps I am destined to be classified and qualified. But, oh, I cry out against it.

A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.

The beginning of divine wisdom is clemency and gentleness, which arise from greatness of soul and the bearing of infirmities.

A season is not made in a week or two any more than a stellar game epitomizes greatness.

Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

The dissemination of advanced implantable technology will likely be just as ruthlessly democratic as the ailments it is destined to treat. Meaning that, someday soon, we may have a new class of very smart, very fast people - yesterday's disabled and elderly.

I think greatness is found within mundanity, those boring little ticks throughout the day.

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

Being immortal must have a lot of attractions. You can travel all over the world, see everything, do everything. But what happens if you are immortal and your friends and family are not? You are then destined to watch them age and die.

Where are you now, my beloved? Do you hear my weeping From beyond the ocean? Do you understand my need? Do you know the greatness of my patience?

It's easier to get rid of things when you're giving them to someone who can use them, but don't let this kind intention become a source of clutter itself. I have a friend who has multiple piles all over her house, each lovingly destined for a particular recipient.

But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.

The boy detective thinks, The only thing all men have in common with one another is their inherent capacity to make mistakes. He reasons, But there is wonder in the attempt, knowing we are all destined to fall short, but forgoing reason and fear time and time again so deliberately.

Focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness.

Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.

The greatest lesson I've learned is that you have to fight and continue to strive for greatness, as nothing great ever comes easily.

Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon.

Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no greater than those around you.

Three ideas stand out above all others in the influence they have exerted and are destined to exert upon the development of the human race: The idea of the Golden Rule; the idea of natural law; the idea of age-long growth or evolution.

I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.

Greatness of mind becomes an object of love only when the power at work in it itself has a noble character

Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms.

The illegal 2003 invasion had little to do with liberating Iraqis from Saddam Hussein's dictatorship. Instead, the real freedoms and benefits were destined to go to corporations like Halliburton and others that stood to gain from the privatisation of the formerly state-owned Iraqi economy.

I note the derogatory rumors concerning the use of alcoholic stimulants and lavish living. It is the penalty of greatness.

The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself.

With the right support, a child growing up in a dysfunctional household, who was destined for a lifetime on benefits could be put on an entirely different track - one which sees them move into fulfilling and sustainable work. In doing so, they will pull themselves out of poverty.

We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.

Increasingly, corporations will look to advertising agencies for direction. Without an understanding of brand creation, messaging, and strategy, today's designers are destined to become the haidressers of tomorrow's creative environments-great for styling but light on strategy.